smitten

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The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Trump is so smitten with his Florsheim dress shoes that he shod his whole Cabinet in the same footwear.

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2026

The adaptation retained the 18th-century setting and the central plot: The teenage siren Manon, on her way to a convent, runs off with a smitten young aristocrat, the Chevalier Des Grieux.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

Traders seemed less smitten, and the stock traded off 4% to a Monday afternoon price of $7.80.

From Barron's • Nov. 10, 2025

And on the family's only visit to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, young Patti slipped off alone to a hall of Picassos and was "smitten".

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025

Janis was happy and hard-driving, a telecommunications analyst who worked downtown and was, like everyone else, completely smitten with my dad.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama